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UNITED STATES.l PATENT OEEIcE.

ALEXANDER MARENGO AND JOSEPH MARENG, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA,ASSIGNORS T() THEMSELVES AND R, MARENGO, 0F SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN cHERooT-MACHINES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 203,926, dated May 21,1878 5 application led November 1, 1877.

To all whom 'it may camera:

Be it known that we, ALEXANDER MA- RENGo and JosErH MAEENGO, ofMontreal, in, the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, haveinvented a new and Improved (lheroot-Machine, of which the following isa specification In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a frontView; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section on line a: m, Fig. l, oi'our improved cheroot-machine; and Fig. 3 shows side views of thetapering rollers employed for forming the cheroots.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention is intended to so improve the cigarette-machine for whichLetters Patent have been granted to us heretofore, dated May 23, 1876,and numbered 177,7 32, that that class of cigars known as cheroots ordovetails may be manufactured thereon with convenience and. rapidity.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing,and then pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawing, A and B represent the top rollers, and C theendless belt, which is stretched over the top rollers and over avertically-adjustable bottom roller, D, Whose supporting-frame issecured on the fixed side standards of the machine by setscrews a.

The roller A is supported in xed arms E, While the roller B is mountedon pivoted arms E', which turn on pivots b of the supportingframe, andare connected by lever-arms F and rod G with a suitable treadlemechanism, so that by pressing the treadle down the rollers will bebrought closer to each other and inclose the tobacco placed in the bightformed by the belt between the rollers, as shown in Fig. 2.

A spring, I, bears on the lever-arm F, and throws the roller back whenthe treadle is released. The approach of the rollers A B is regulated bymeans of lugs or stops on the stationary a'rms E and stop-screws uponthe movable arms E', so as to regulate denitely the size ofthe cigarsmade on the machine.

To build our cheroot-machine, we decide, rst, the degree of taper thatthe c'heroot shall have from the middle toward each end, which ispreferably an angle of one and one-half degree, with a horizontal plane.Next we make the belt at a corresponding concave angle by means of ablock or former, consisting ot' wooden sections held togetherdetachably. The belt is then formed of iieXible material, stretched,tted closely over the block, covered with rubber composition, and thendried. The sections of the pattern-block or former are taken apart, andthe belt is ready for use.

The top rolls are concave and smallest in the center, and tapergradually from the outside at an angle to a horizontal plane of onedegree, while the bottom roll is conveXly tapered from the middle toeachendl at an angle of four degrees. The reason of the increased angleof taper given to the bottom roll is that it may draw the middle of thebelt downward, so as to cause its ends to draw more heavily on the twotop rolls, from which it receives its motion.

What I claim as new is- The combination of the rolls A B D, constructedsubstantially as described, with a suitably-shaped belt, as and for thepurpose specified.

ALEXANDER MARENGO. JOSEPH MARENGO.

Witnesses: l

AUGUSTUS RICHARD, JOHN FOGARTY.

